Effort estimation of open source Android projects via transaction analysis

Transactions have been used in many software sizing methods to measure software functional size and provide a basis for effort estimation. To further investigate the effects that transactions have on software functional size and more accurately estimate project effort using the transactional information, in this paper, we propose a method to identify transactions, as well as their complexity attributes that are influential to software functional size, directly from the source code of Android projects using static and dynamic analyses.

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